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Mike Russo reviews 19 Once: "Post-teenage wasteland" October 26, 2024 "It’s a truism that there’s a lot about being young that only makes sense in retrospect. One can interrogate whether that’s..." - See full review

EJ reviews The Killings in Wasacona: "The Killings in Wasacona review" October 26, 2024 "This is a murder mystery game in which you play as an FBI agent who’s been called in to investigate a string of murders (possibly the..." - See full review

EJ reviews Forsaken Denizen: "Forsaken Denizen review" October 26, 2024 "Forsaken Denizen is a survival horror game taking place in a far-future space monarchy. An extradimensional investment group has..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews WHOM I SHOULD LOVE ABOVE ALL THINGS: "Forgive Me Father, For We Have Sinned" October 26, 2024 "Played: 7/26/24 Playtime: 5min This is a short, very short excerpt from a longer work. I am not convinced reviewing this in isolation..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews The Revenant's Lament: "Wild, Weird West" October 26, 2024 "Played: 7/26/24 Playtime: 45min My introduction to this author was via their prose which typically lands squarely in my thirsty, thirsty..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Cycle: "Entitled Heart, pt2" October 26, 2024 "Played: 7/25/24 Playtime: 10min, 3/3 endings It is kind of gratifying to watch an artistic arc. So much art is consumed one-and-done in..." - See full review

Canalboy reviews Lost: "I could spell better as a five year old." October 25, 2024 "This is a large and as far as I am aware also an obscure science fiction game which I played within DOSBox-X. I nearly didn't bother to..." - See full review

A new listing for Idle Judgment Day, by ODD PIZZA!

A new listing for Stellar Odyssey, by Nick Marentes

Lance Cirone reviews The Mean Story: "Not the sum of its parts" October 25, 2024 "The Mean Story bases itself on offensive humor and warns you multiple times about it. I'm not really a fan of this, but I can't blame the..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Moon-House Technician: "Grinding moondust" October 25, 2024 "When I was a kid I went through a phase where Howard Pyle was one of my favorite authors. A turn-of-the-century writer and illustrator,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Postage Code: "Postman Flat" October 25, 2024 "I have to give Postage Code massive points for what seems like a simple thing: it starts when you double-click it. It’s a Python game,..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Yurf: "Alice in Onewordland" October 25, 2024 "The rise of choice-based games to co-equal status alongside their parser cousins has had a lot of positive effects, in my view, among..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Collision: "Impact Imminent" October 25, 2024 "Played: 7/25/24 Playtime: 5min, 5 playthroughs, 5 deaths The 'Thon has exposed me to a higher density of works..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews idle hands: "Do I Make You HORNY, Baybee?" October 25, 2024 "Played: 7/25/24 Playtime: 5min, ah, finished This is a linear piece of short erotica. Interactivity is mainly used in mouseover phrases..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Dark Communion: "But I Don't WANNA Go to Church, Mom!!" October 25, 2024 "Played: 7/24/24 Playtime: 15min, 3/3 rescues, 2/4 fails, 3/5 awards This is an entry for a Comp I do NOT judge! Weirdly, as EctoComp’s..." - See full review

A new poll by Canalboy, Games With Extended Underwater Sequences created October 24, 2024 18 votes for 18 games That is games that have immersive (pun intended) sub aqua areas of more than, say ten locations.

Cerfeuil reviews House of Wolves: "The metaphorical life of a college student during lockdown" October 24, 2024 " Your life has looked almost exactly the same for every day of the past however-many months. You wake up, do the bare minimum to keep... " - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Samurai and the Kappa: "Enjoyable puzzling marred by ill-advised historicity" October 24, 2024 "I’ve never dug that deeply into Text Adventure Literacy Project games, mostly just because I’m already fairly overcommitted when it..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Project Postmortem: "An academic-thriller amuse-bouche" October 24, 2024 "It’s unfair to Project Postmortem to compare it to The Mysterious Cave, a pretty-but-buggy Adventuron game that consists of one basic..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Free Bird: "Fail forward" October 24, 2024 "Free Bird’s blurb conveys at best a profound ambivalence about its value: of this short game functioning as a proof-of-concept for a..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews It can't be true it mustn't be true: "3/5 of a Review" October 24, 2024 "Played: 7/24/24 Playtime: Act I (2x) 5min; Act II (3x) 5min; Act III (4x) 8min I made the call to review these three Acts together, given..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Remembrance: "Selective Grief" October 24, 2024 "Played: 7/22/24 Playtime: 8min, 4 endings Hitting quite a run of these Short Story IF works. I suspect (and only suspect, not having..." - See full review

dfranke reviews Delusions: "Hasn't aged well" October 23, 2024 "When I first played Delusions as a teen in the late 90s, it blew me away. Coming back to it, I find that it has not aged well. Delusions..." - See full review

A new listing for The Darien Gap, by Kurmi Xochitl, influencia indebida, Gaz

perkiio reviews Dust: "Ima" October 23, 2024 "Imagery in the back throws off the game, and the text is too small. Not an attention grabber"

perkiio reviews Verses: "Ehhh" October 23, 2024 "I didn't like how the game was speaking in a different language."

DemonApologist reviews PARANOIA: "Is 'Dr. Iblis' in the room with us right now?" October 23, 2024 "In Paranoia, the devilish Dr. Iblis has tasked you, the player, with exploring a series of copies of the same room. Your job is to..." - See full review

perkiio reviews LATEX, LEATHER, LIPSTICK, LOVE, LUST: "Spicy!" October 23, 2024 "It is a lot of storytelling and little to no gameplay aspect. But the story delves into interesting matters."

perkiio reviews The Den: "amazing!" October 23, 2024 "I love the structure of the game and the interactiveness with all the different paths being able to take. Even though I have to pick..." - See full review

perkiio reviews The Bat: "cool game" October 23, 2024 "I love the reference to batman."

Mike Russo reviews Beef, Beans, Grief, Greens: "Salad days" October 23, 2024 "It is nothing short of miraculous that Andrew Schultz has now made eight large, robust games centering on a very specific bit of wordplay..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews The Mysterious Cave: "Caveat lector" October 23, 2024 "“Your goal is to navigate through the forest, solve puzzles, interact with characters, and ultimately discover the truth about your..." - See full review

Mike Russo reviews Return of the Sword: "The wonky and fuddled king" October 23, 2024 "The legends surrounding King Arthur loomed large to the medieval mind: as the so-called “matter of Britain”, they made up one of the..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews DOL-OS: "You Are Complicit, Clippy" October 23, 2024 "Played: 7/22/24 Playtime: 1.5hrs At some point, I review enough work from a single artist that my impulse is to turn a current review..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews Read This When You Turn 15: "Maybe Next Time, Call Her" October 23, 2024 "Played: 7/22/24 Playtime: 5min You guys are really throwing down the gauntlet here, aren’t you? Ever shorter lengths, ever tighter..." - See full review

JJ McC reviews VESPERTINE: "Kiss Me Deadly" October 23, 2024 "Played: 7/22/24 Playtime: 15min My second played work from the Goncharov Jam, and hoo boy quite different. This is a tragic love story,..." - See full review

IFDB site news October 22, 2024 New this month: The team has been hard at work on improvements to IFDB. New Star Rating Control Performance Improvements Updated Tag List Dark Mode Improvements Tag Suggestions

IFDB site news October 22, 2024 New Star Rating Control: There's a new star rating control, designed for accessibility. We'd love to get your feedback on it on the intfiction.org forum. The new star controls are designed to be bigger, easier to tap on on touchscreens. They’re also designed to be keyboard accessible. You can use tab to focus on the star control, and then use arrow keys to select a rating. (When you do this, you have to tab over to the new “Submit Rating” button to submit your selection.) Under the hood, they’re secretly radio buttons, so users of screen readers will interact with them like radio buttons. We’ve replaced the little star icons with new SVG icons. I think they’re nicer to look at, especially on high-resolution screens (like phones).

IFDB site news October 22, 2024 Performance Improvements: You should see a number of performance improvements on the site. Especially note that clicking your browser's Back button now shows the previous page instantly. And on Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, we're now downloading certain links before you click on them, especially "See full review" links on the home page and the first few results on searches, so when you click on those links, the page loads instantly.

IFDB site news October 22, 2024 Updated Tag List: The All Game Tags page now shows tags in a list, sorted by frequency. You can also sort them alphabetically and view them in a tag cloud.

IFDB site news October 22, 2024 Dark Mode Improvements: There are always more fixes to make, but we've fixed a number of spots where IFDB Dark Mode was showing bright white dialogs or low-contrast text.

IFDB site news October 22, 2024 Tag Suggestions: When adding a tag, we now provide suggestions based on what you've typed. We'll suggest any tag that's been used on at least ten games.

Marius Müller reviews Swigian: "Game" October 22, 2024 "Played it. Liked it."

LoquySSS46 reviews The Triskelion Affair: "An in-depth Zorkian endeavour that deserves further elaboration" October 22, 2024 "I thoroughly enjoyed; It was right up my alley with the likes of Zork. In contrast with its predecessor, however, narrative elements,..." - See full review

LoquySSS46 reviews Eikas: "Now THAT'S what I call worldbuilding!" October 22, 2024 "This game finally opened my eyes to what Twine IF is all about. Until now, I had mostly ignored anything not parser-based as it just..." - See full review

News on Quotient, The Game: Quotient, The Game... Release 1.0! (or Version 108) October 22, 2024 Ok, I'm officially out of beta. Do you want to be a spy? Join Quotient, the quantum-powered, independent spy agency. Play this Zork inspired, tongue-in-cheek, spy game where you gather treasures and help... - Details

LoquySSS46 reviews String Theory: "Very sympathetic, relatable, yet psychological perspective" October 22, 2024 "Very enjoyable! The way it tells the different family members' stories and how it lays out the structure of the family tree are really..." - See full review

LoquySSS46 reviews Bureau of Strange Happenings: "Peppy and lively" October 22, 2024 "The setting was well implemented and lively. Characters made sense and felt natural; I especially liked the fact that characters..." - See full review

LoquySSS46 reviews Imprimatura: "Didn't like the randomness, LOVED everything else" October 22, 2024 "As you mourn the loss of a family member, you are left to collect a number of their art collection, as per their will. Left with this..." - See full review

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